Memoirs of an Indian Woman

This vivid memoir recounts the experience of Shudha Mazumdar, a woman born at the turn of the century to Indian parents whose ideas on child rearing differed greatly. Her father, a wealthy Europeanized Zamindar, tried to instill Western values, while Shudha''s mother emphasized the traditional, even going as far as arranging a marriage for her daughter when she was thirteen. Although true to India...